It is more than fair to say that the Texas Longhorn Football program is far from where it was under coaching titan Mack Brown. It is also fair to say, that sometime in the near future (not too near), the Longhorns will be great again. Unfortunately for those fans less patient, that time is not now. Tom Herman is one hell of a coach, and has proven he can turn a team into a successful program. That will not happen immediately at his new gig, Texas. The program is still dealing with whatever illness they have that caused them to lose to Kansas for the first time in nearly 80 years. That illness still persists today.
Charlie Strong has a great reputation for attracting players of intelligence and high moral character. While they're not untalented, they're certainly not competing for a Big 12 title, so they can forget about a national title. Herman has been brought in to help cure this rash of sub-par play. Anybody who expects this to happen overnight must believe in miracles, because last time I checked, Herman will still be coaching Strong's recruits. In 2 or maybe 3 years, I will not be shocked if we see Texas looking for back to back titles.
Texas is coming off of a horrible 5-7 season, and by the way, lost an absolute monster at Running Back. D'Onta Foreman was the life blood of this team. In my latest predictions, I do have them doing better this season (not by much) than they did last season, with a record of 6-6. One thing helping Texas is that they play Kansas at home next season, and the Baylor program seems to be in shambles after their scandal, that I don't expect very much from them. To their detriment, they dont have a very easy out of conference schedule. They have to play Maryland who may not be very good, but they are a scrappy bunch. After that, they play San Jose State, which should be no problem for them, but then they have to go on the road to play USC.
With the Big 12 being what it is (lack of defense), this is the conference for an offensive mind like Herman. Like I stated above, there is no reason Texas wont be the best team in the conference, and possibly in the country. However, that won't be until 2020-2021 (when his recruits become Juniors).
I absolutely love football, and am excited for the Longhorns' future. I am not a fan, but I am willing to wait patiently to watch Texas develop into something we havent seen in college football since the days of Reggie Bush. That would be an exciting, fun to watch, dominant team. Alabama may be great, but as a spectator, they're not that much fun to watch. In my opinion, Cam was the only fun part of that Auburn team, and Jameis was the only fun part of the Seminoles. Don't mistake my word fun. Im not saying they weren't great, I am saying they weren't that exciting week after week like USC and Texas were back in 2004.
Hope you enjoyed the read!
Daniel Snyder
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